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Sunday Nov 20, 2022
226–227 Heidegger and crisis in science
Sunday Nov 20, 2022
Sunday Nov 20, 2022
He is the most influential philosopher of the 20th century and one of the most difficult ones to understand.
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Sunday Nov 13, 2022
224–225 Marx didn’t like capitalism
Sunday Nov 13, 2022
Sunday Nov 13, 2022
The capitalists and the workers are like Tom and Jerry – always in a fight.
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Monday Nov 07, 2022
222–223 Europe and the people without history
Monday Nov 07, 2022
Monday Nov 07, 2022
Colonization means settlement in new areas, but also control over the people and resources. Are there differences between Spanish. Portuguese, or British colonization?
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Monday Oct 31, 2022
220–221 When Poland disappeared
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Monday Oct 31, 2022
In the 17th century, Jan Sobieski, the king of the powerful Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth saved Vienna from the Ottoman Empire. A hundred years later, this state disappeared from the map. How was it possible?
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Monday Oct 24, 2022
218–219 The Seven years’ war, the first global conflict
Monday Oct 24, 2022
Monday Oct 24, 2022
Held in 1756-63, this war's consequences are still felt.
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Sunday Oct 16, 2022
216–217 Women and war
Sunday Oct 16, 2022
Sunday Oct 16, 2022
When men go to war, women go to war and to the factories. And this change is irreversible.
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Sunday Oct 09, 2022
214–215 Machiavelli, the Jesuits, and dishonesty in politics
Sunday Oct 09, 2022
Sunday Oct 09, 2022
Treachery has many faces, and some of them are unreconcilable.
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Monday Oct 03, 2022
212–213 Bonapartism, plebiscites and Napoleon III
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Bonapartism comes from Bonaparte, Napoleon Bonaparte. There were actually two Napoleons, the First and the Third. These emperors could not do without plebiscites.
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Sunday Sep 25, 2022
210–211 Why Russia did not have the Renaissance
Sunday Sep 25, 2022
Sunday Sep 25, 2022
You need Latin and Greek to have the Renaissance, but the Eastern Slavs had Church Slavonic.
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Sunday Sep 18, 2022
208–209 Charles V, the world emperor
Sunday Sep 18, 2022
Sunday Sep 18, 2022
After Charlemagne, Charles V Habsburg was arguably the most famous Charles. His empire was enormous, nevertheless he abdicated in 1555.
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